The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Mother Moon, sentence 29
And so they took away one of her eyes, so that she could never see again so well.
Who acts: Trues, mother · What happens: take away, not see · To what, where: one
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Mother Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Trues, mother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 took | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 eyes | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 one | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 see | advmod |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 see | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 see | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | aux |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 see | advmod |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 took | conj |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 see | advmod |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 well | advmod |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 see | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take away | past | Trues = true | one of mother's eyes | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||
| 2 | not see | could | mother | again | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Project Gutenberg book 77804 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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